Mountain and sea lantern

Chapter 651 The dead duck has a tough mouth

The jailers understood their doubts. Not to mention them, even they themselves were quite surprised to see this man enjoying his last meal. They immediately nodded and confirmed with a wry smile, "It is indeed his last meal before he is executed."

Well, everyone was speechless when they saw Shi Chun's nonchalant attitude. It was quite an eye-opener to see him be so open-minded in such a situation.

Yin Luo, not forgetting the important matter, turned her head and asked Yin Xu, "Is it him?"

These words immediately ignited Yin Xu's hatred, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's him. I'd recognize him even if he turned to ashes."

Upon hearing the familiar voice, Shi Chun, who was chewing something, looked up, carefully recognized it, and quickly stood up, swallowing her food with difficulty. She asked in surprise and doubt, "Yin Xu?"

Yin Xu said sternly, "Shi Chun, you scoundrel, you've deceived me so badly!"

As for how miserable she was, it didn't need to be described in words. Shi Chun looked at her broken arms and legs and was embarrassed enough to guess that his impersonation of Qingqiu Ancestor's old friend had been exposed.

I used this to get a lot of help from others.

As expected, Yin Luo asked upon seeing this, "You, impersonating my Qingqiu Ancestor's friend?"

As she spoke, she beckoned Shi Chun with her finger, signaling her to come closer so she could take a good look at what kind of person he was.

Shi Chun, not wanting to get close for a thrill, decided to play the rogue since things had come to this. He bent down, grabbed the wine jug, calmly took a swig, and exhaled the smell of alcohol, saying, "I didn't lie to her. Ask her yourself. I never said I was a friend of the Qingqiu Ancestor. She's the one who kept misunderstanding. She's the one who wanted to curry favor with her own ancestor. I'm a stranger in this place, and she's a local bully. What could I do against her? I could only politely comply and give her a few perfunctory replies. Yin Xu, think about it yourself. Did I ever admit it? I'm not even sure if I said it. How was I supposed to know you'd believe that?"

He seemed completely unconcerned, genuinely unconcerned. The woman in red had already agreed to his request, saying it was a minor matter and that her cousin would handle things with the Qingqiu fox clan afterwards.

“You…” Yin Xu pointed at her, trembling with anger. There was nothing she could do. After thinking about it for a moment, she realized that the other woman had never admitted to knowing her ancestor. It was all just wishful thinking on her part.

Shi Chun shrugged, looking helpless, and continued to chug his drink.

Daozhen, standing to the side, looked at this person and then at that person, observing carefully and coldly. He could roughly tell that neither side seemed to be acting.

Yin Luo, whose face darkened, seemed to be angered as well. Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed at the cage from a distance. Shi Chun was immediately pulled away by a force, slipped, knocked over his plate, and the wine jar in his hand shattered against the bars. His face almost squeezed out of the bars.

Yin Luo grabbed his collar and pulled him close, face to face, her nostrils flaring slightly as she leaned in, and said coldly, "You have quite the nerve, daring to desecrate my Qingqiu Ancestor!"

Shi Chun's face was so constricted that he could barely speak.

A woman in palace attire rushed forward and pressed down on Yin Luo's arm, urgently dissuading him: "This is not a place for clan leader to act recklessly. Please stop."

Daozhen, who was standing nearby, was also worried about the rashness of the matter and spoke up to remind him, "He is about to be executed. Why should the clan leader cause unnecessary trouble?"

"Hmph!" Yin Luo shoved him away.

With his magic power restricted, Shi Chun let out a strange cry of pain and was pushed to the ground, rolling several times before crashing hard into the wall inside before coming to a stop.

By the time Shi Chun grimaced and got up, the footsteps of Yin Luo, Yin Xu, and Dao Zhen had already faded into the distance.

A jailer remained at the scene, and kindly asked from outside the cage, "Are you alright?"

He certainly didn't want anything to happen to the prisoner right under his nose at the last minute.

Shi Chun rubbed his shoulder and approached the railing, asking, "Who is this woman who's so angry?"

The jailer sighed, "Forget it, you can't afford to offend him. He's the current patriarch of the Qingqiu Fox Clan."

"..." Shi Chun Ning was speechless. No wonder she heard someone calling her clan leader earlier. It seemed she would have to ask the woman in red to have a good talk with her cousin.

He then gave a self-deprecating laugh, realizing that he had actually been personally taught a lesson by the chief of the Qingqiu Fox Clan.

"Sigh, it doesn't matter whether you offend her or not, you're about to set off anyway." The jailer sighed, waved his hand, and turned to leave. After taking a few steps, he smelled the aroma of food and wine, turned back, and used magic to clear away the scraps on the ground. Before leaving, he asked, "Shall I get you another serving? Eat your fill before you go?"

Shi Chun found it amusing. If he could travel, would he have come here on his own initiative? But there was no need to explain, so he waved his hand to indicate that it wasn't necessary...

Queen Xin and Queen Yao, who were talking inside the palace, turned to look at Yin Luo and the others who were returning outside the palace.

The Demon Queen directly asked Zhen via telepathy, "What tricks are you playing?"

Daozhen replied telepathically: "There's nothing fancy about it, it was just a simple verification of identity."

Queen Xin asked Yin Luo, who had returned, "Chief Yin, how was it? Was it correct?"

Yin Luo nodded. "This Shi Chun is indeed Wang Ping. I'll say it again, I'm here today to oversee the execution. No one can plead for him; he must die!" Having said that, and having indeed not gone to save him, the Demon Queen's last trace of doubt was dispelled. She was now certain that Shi Chun's previous entanglement with the Qingqiu Fox Clan was all a fabrication stemming from fraud, and had nothing to do with the Qingqiu Fox Clan.

Queen Xin smiled slightly, "When the time comes, heads will fall, and the clan leader will not have made a wasted trip."

He gestured with his head to the side as he spoke.

Immediately, someone operated the magical artifact, and soon a light screen appeared in the hall, the image constantly adjusting and changing, finally focusing on the execution ground in the capital. The image reflected in the celestial mirror showed a scene of a sea of ​​people at the execution ground...

Inside the prison, Shi Chun, who had taken a big fall, was stretching his legs and twisting his body to loosen his sore muscles when he suddenly heard footsteps approaching.

He was somewhat puzzled. The frequency of these people appearing today was indeed a bit high. He remembered that after being thrown in last time, almost no one paid any attention to him. What was going on today?
Before long, three more people arrived and stopped outside the cage. The one in the lead was an old acquaintance of his, Wei Mo, dressed in plain clothes.

"Lord Wei." Shi Chun bowed respectfully, still using the same address he had used years ago.

Wei Mo nodded to indicate that the prison door had been opened with a clatter.

Wei Mo went inside, looked around the cell, and frowned slightly at the smell of the spilled food and wine, but he didn't mind. It didn't smell bad, and it wasn't like he was the one being locked up here. He believed that Shi Chun didn't need this kind of concern.

Anyway, getting back to the point, "Shi Chun, is there anything else you want to say?"

That was also the purpose of his personal visit.

Shi Chun smiled bitterly, "I've said everything I needed to say. Once you've investigated and verified everything, you'll be able to prove my innocence."

Wei Mo: "It has nothing to do with the case. What I mean is, do you have anything you can confess to save your life? Anything, or any information, will do. Among those who were to be executed today, several people have confessed important information and redeemed themselves. They have already been pardoned by the royal court at this last moment. This is your last chance. Don't waste Young Master Nan's good intentions."

He shouldn't have been the one to ask that question. His matter was over after he captured Shi Chun and handed him over. It was Young Master Nan who found him and appealed to his emotions and reason, saying that Shi Chun's success today was also due to the support he, Wei Mo, had given when he was the domain lord.

What about when you persuaded someone to turn themselves in, you promised them that if it was found that they had nothing to do with you, you would release them? That's why they turned themselves in. Now you're just killing them like this, without any clear explanation. Isn't that breaking your promise?

He was persuaded by Young Master Nan, and with the addition of some gifts from Young Master Nan, he reluctantly went to Jia Huan to see if he could help Shi Chun secure a chance to survive.

Even if Shi Chun could hand over the method for refining a fifth-grade immobilization talisman, or some secret method for finding divine fire, he could use that to report it and try to get a reprieve first. As long as things calm down, things will take a turn for the better.

Actually, he didn't want to arrest Shi Chun at first, but he had no choice. He was assigned the task and had to use every means to capture him.

However, Shi Chun didn't buy into this at all. He believed that he had quite a few things that could save his life at this critical moment, but he already had a backup plan. The Eastern Sheng Royal Court was also being led by the nose by his plan, so he had no need to reveal his trump cards.

Intimidation and threats didn't work on him; he considered himself a man who had seen it all.

Therefore, he smiled bitterly again, "Lord Wei, things are already like this, if there's something that can save my life, how could I not tell you?"

Wei Mo said in a deep voice, "Shi Chun, you'd better think this through. If you don't confess now, we'll put you under some kind of restraint and drag you out to the execution platform. You won't even have time to talk then. If it were anyone else, we wouldn't bother with you like this."

Shi Chun sighed, "Lord Wei, if I had something to save my life, I wouldn't have ended up like this. Also, I just don't understand. I've confessed everything I needed to, but have you investigated thoroughly? It's all so unclear. It's only been a few days, and you're already saying you want to execute me. What kind of logic is that? If it doesn't matter whether you can investigate or not, then why did you go through all the trouble of arresting me in the first place?"

Wei Mo reached out and poked his chest. "If reason were the answer to everything, there wouldn't be so much right and wrong, so many grudges and grievances. You came from a place of exile, so you should know very well how to face reality. Your execution is imminent, and you have no way out. That's reality. The only thing to do is to protect yourself! I'll ask you one last time, are you going to confess or not?"

Shi Chun said with a bitter face, "Lord Wei, do you think I want to die? I really only have this much to offer, I really have nothing to confess."

"Phew!" Wei Mo let out a long breath, walked to the prison bars with his hands behind his back, remained silent for a while, then dusted his hands and gave a gesture.

So the two heavenly officials immediately brought out the locks and forced Shi Chun, who was asking what was going on, to kneel down. The locks were 'I'-shaped chains that handcuffed his hands and feet behind his back, with a chain between his hands and feet that kept him kneeling and unable to stand up.

Many people were to be executed this time. To prevent anyone from shouting and talking nonsense when the group went to the execution ground, a restriction was directly placed on Shi Chun, making him mute and unable to speak.

Hearing the chains rattle, Wei Mo turned around and asked one last time, "Confess or not?"

Shi Chun, bound and kneeling on the ground, shook his head and whimpered, stubbornly refusing to admit his mistake.

It seems this fellow truly doesn't know the secret method for crafting a fifth-grade immobilization talisman. It seems the secret method for finding the divine fire is indeed with Situ Gu. Wei Mo sighed, feeling he had done all he could and had nothing more to say. He had no right to obstruct him any further, so he immediately turned and left.

With the clanking of chains, two royal guards grabbed Shi Chun by the arms of each of them and dragged him out of the prison.

Even at this point, Shi Chun still believed that Wang Ting and his gang were bluffing him. They thought that executing someone after only one trial was a lie.

Despite believing he had made multiple backup plans, he remained calm and composed, continuing to feign innocence and helplessness.

(End of this chapter)